Naval Medals from the Collection of the Late Jason Pilalas (Part 2)

The Great War Jutland D.S.M. group of six awarded to Gunner C. P. Peckham, Royal Navy, who was also the recipient of the Naval Good Shooting Medal with Bar, likewise for services in H.M.S. Superb
Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (169822 C. P. Peckham, C.P.O., H.M.S. Superb 31 May - 1 June, 1916.); 1914-15 Star (169822 C. P. Peckham, C.P.O. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Gnr. C. Peckham. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (169822 C. P. Peckham, C.P.O., H.M.S. Revenge.); Naval Good Shooting Medal, E.VII.R., with Second Award Bar specially embossed ‘H.M.S. “Superb” 1913. 12” B.L.’ (169822 C. P. Peckham, P.O. 1Cl, H.M.S. Superb. 1910. 12 In. B.L.), light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (6) £2,400-£2,800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Naval Medals from the Collection of the Late Jason Pilalas.

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Just 53 Naval Good Shooting Medals with First Bars were awarded.
D.S.M. London Gazette 15 September 1916: ‘Recommended for honour.’
Charles Percy Peckham was born at Broadwater, Sussex on 20 June 1877, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in October 1892. Over the coming decade he attended the gunnery establishment Excellent on several occasions and gained steady advancement.
In May 1909, he joined the battleship H.M.S. Superb, aboard which he was awarded his Naval Good Shooting Medal in 1910, having excelled as a member of the turret crew of a 12-inch breech-loading gun. Having then served in the battleship Revenge, in which he was advanced to Chief Petty Officer in February 1912 and awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in the following June, he rejoined the Superb and added a Bar to his Good Shooting Medal in the fleet competition in 1913.
Peckham remained actively employed in the Superb until August 1917, in which period he saw action at Jutland, when she formed part of the 4th Battle Squadron under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe and was credited with hits on the Weisbaden and Derfflinger. Those hits were achieved with her main 12-inch armament and surely in part attributable to Peckham’s established gunnery record. He was awarded the D.S.M.
Having come ashore to Excellent in August 1917, he was commissioned as a ‘Gunner, R.N.’ in May 1918 and ended the war in torpedo boat 077. He was pensioned ashore in February 1919 and died in June 1954.